2018 VR Awards: Star Wars, Vive Pro earn top honors

The 2018 VR Awards wrapped up this week, and we saw a ton of worthy nominations, but only a select few could be crowned as winners. We’ve gone ahead and rounded up every single winner for each category right here down below for you:

VR Headset of the Year nominees

• Oculus – Go
• VRgineers Inc. – VRHero 5K Plus
• HTC – Vive Focus

Winner: HTC Vive Pro

VR Game of the Year nominees

• Bethesda Softworks – Fallout 4 VR
• Bethesda Softworks – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
• Beat Games – Beat Saber
• Survios Inc. – Sprint Vector
• Ready At Dawn – Lone Echo / Echo Arena
• Hidden Path Entertainment – Brass Tactics
• Vertical Robot – Red Matter
• VRWERX – Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul
• ARVORE Immersive Experiences – Pixel Ripped 1989 (currently unreleased)
• inXile Entertainment – The Mage’s Tale
• Electric Hat Games – To The Top
• nDreams – Shooty Fruity

Winner: Cloudhead Games Ltd. – The Gallery – Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone

Above: Manifest 99

VR Experience of the Year nominees

• REWIND – Silicon Valley: Inside The Hacker Hostel
• Framestore – A Moon For All Mankind
• Magnopus – Coco VR
• Magnopus – Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab
• Preloaded and BBC Worldwide – BBC Earth: Life in VR – California Coast
• Tomorrow Never Knows – The Day The World Changed
• Framestore – Sky4DVR
• Human Interact – Starship Commander
• Interactive Media Foundation gGmbHl – Ulm Stories – The Dream of Flying
• NextVR – NBA League Pass in NextVR: 2017-2018 Regular Season

Winner: Flight School – Manifest 99

Above: Getting to the “heart” of the matter here.

VR Film of the Year nominees

• Baobab Studios – Asteroids!
• Pink Kong Studios – Aurora
• Room One Films – The Committee
• Lucid Dreams Productions – The Sun Ladies
• Olympic Channel & Jaunt – Trending Gold
• Vision3 – My Africa
• NSC Creative – Vestige
• FoxNext VR Studio – Isle of Dogs Behind the Scenes (in Virtual Reality)
• TopDogVR – Speed Kills VR

Winner: ILMxLAB – Carne y Arena

Above: Pixar’s Coco shows good use of marketing in VR.

VR Marketing of the Year nominees

• ILMxLAB – Star Wars™: Droid Repair Bay
• Flight School and Momentum Worldwide – GMC Rangeland Derby VR
• BackLight – L’Oreal / Diesel Only the Brave
• Pebble Studios – Pebble Studios: DuckTales | 360° Adventure: The Lost Key of Tralla La
• Somewhere Else – Delicatessen
• GrandPano – SPP – SMART HOME
• Magnopus – Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab
• Welcomm (working together with Bravo!/Plato Reality) – Melbourne, meet your new train
• TAKELEAP – IKEA Virtual Reality Store
• Audi and ZeroLIght – Audi VR Experience

Winner: Magnopus – Coco VR

Above: World of Tanks VR won a nod for Neurogaming.

Rising VR Company of the Year nominees

• Flight School
• SpringboardVR
• VRgineers Inc.
• Fast Travel Games AB
• Cooperative Innovations
• Anzu.io

Winner: Neurogaming Limited

Above: Ultrahaptics uses ultrasound so you can feel in VR.

Innovative VR Company of the Year nominees

• Striker VR
• Pixvana
• Spinview
• AiSolve
• TAKELEAP
• Human Interact
• Visbit Inc.
• Flipside
• Gravity Sketch

Winner: Ultrahaptics

Above: HoloLab champions teaches kids about chemistry in VR.

Image Credit: Schell Games

VR Education of the Year nominees

• MEL Science – MEL Chemistry VR
• Elara Systems – Alcon Virtual Eye Experience
• ITI, United Rentals, & Serious Labs – VR Crane & Equipment Operator Training Simulator Suite
• Alliander – Alliander Virtual Platform
• VR Factory – Bartender VR Simulator
• MEDIASQUAD Medienentwicklungs- und Vertriebs-GmbH – Pharmaceutical Line Clearance VR Training
• FarBridge, Inc. – MasterWorks: Journey Through History

Winner: Schell Games – HoloLab Champions

Above: Virti does medical training in AR and VR.

VR Healthcare of the Year Nominees

• Elara Systems – Alcon Virtual Eye Experience
• Medis Media – 3D Organon VR Anatomy – Enterprise edition
• VRHealth – First Certified VR Medical Device Company in the world
• Rescape Innovation Ltd – DR.VR
• Infinite MR – Cigna Peak Challenge
• INFINITE MIXED REALITY – INFINITY HOUSE
• appliedVR – EaseVR
• NUMENA Virtual Reality Architects – B. Braun Spine Days

Winner: Virti

Out-of-Home VR Entertainment of the Year nominees

• Figment Productions – Kraken Unleashed, SeaWorld Orlando
• Framestore – A Moon For All Mankind
• BackLight – Eclipse
• Neurogaming Limited – World of Tanks VR
• HOLOGATE – HOLOGATE
• Kynoa – Koliseum Soccer VR
• Neurogaming Limited – PolygonVR
• Frontgrid – ParadropVR

Winner: ILMxLAB and The VOID  – Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire

VR Social Impact Award nominees

• ILMxLAB – CARNE y ARENA
• The Distillery – What Will Your Day Bring?
• Flight School – Evolution of Testicles
• The Guardian Media Group – The Party – A virtual experience of autism
• Virtual Dream Foundation – Virtual Dream
• CNN – Global Warning – Arctic Melt
• VR CITY – Malaria: Life on the frontline
• Animal Equality – The Dairy Industry in 360 Degrees

Winner: VISYON – Window to our World

VR Architecture and Real Estate of the Year nominees

• GrandPano – ALL in ONE VR for architecture
• Virtual Worlds – Virtual Worlds 4D Theatre
• Overstruct – Overstruct

Winner: Nanopixel – Bostoen

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